Resources
Syllabus (updated 10/30)
Case Study Presentation Schedule:
10/13 : Jaedan – Vowel Coalescence in Tigrinya (Buckley 1994)
10/23 : Claudia – TAM in Amharic (Yimam 2006)
10/25 : Kendyl – Tigrinya Fronted Copula Constructions (Zellou 2010)
10/27 : Jason – Tigrinya Root Consonants and the OCP (Buckley 1997)
11/06 : Emily – Tigrinya Ejective Fricatives (Shosted & Rose 2000)
11/08 : Mattia – Tigrinya Vowel Templates (Buckley 2003)
11/10 : Rachel – Rethinking Geminates in Tigrinya and Tigré (Rose 2000)
11/15 : Angelica – Reexamining the Classification of Ethiosemitic Languages (Demeke 2001)
11/17 : Rae – Object Agreement and Case in Amharic (Baker 2012)
11/20 : Caitlin – Amharic Relatives and Possessors (den Dikken 2007)
Project Presentation Schedule:
12/01 : Angelica, Caitlin
12/04 : Claudia, Emily, Jaedan
12/06 : Jason, Kendyl, Mattia
12/08 : Rachel, Rae
Week 14 : December 04 – December 08
Student Presentations
Week 13 : November 27 – December 02
Student Presentations
Amharic Object Markers (II)
Handout: Lecture 31
Reading: Kramer 2014
Amharic Object Markers (I)
Handout: Lecture 30
Reading: Kramer 2014
Week 12 : November 20 – November 24
No Class Friday
No Class Wednesday
Amharic Relatives and Possessors
Handout: Lecture 29
Reading: den Dikken 2007
Week 11 : November 13 – November 17
Object Agreement and Case in Amharic
Handout: Lecture 28
Reading: Baker 2012
Classification of Ethiosemitic
Handout: Lecture 27
Reading: Demeke 2001
Shifted Indexicals in Tigrinya
Handout: Lecture 26
Reading: Spadine 2020 (optional)
Week 10 : November 6 – November 10
Rethinking Geminates in Tigrinya and Tigré
Handout: Lecture 25
Reading: Rose 2000
Tigrinya Vowel Templates
Handout: Lecture 24
Reading: Buckley 2003
Tigrinya Ejective Fricatives
Handout: Lecture 23
Reading: Shosted & Rose 2000
Week 9 : October 30 – November 3
The Amharic “Causative of the Passive”
Handout: Lecture 22
Reading: Ayalew 2011
Amharic Valency Alternations
Handout: Lecture 21
Reading: Amberber 2000
Amharic Prepositions (II)
Handout: Lecture 20
Reading: Baker & Kramer 2014
Week 8 : October 23 – October 27
Tigrinya Root Consonants and the OCP
Handout: Lecture 19
Reading: Buckley 1997
Tigrinya Fronted Copula Constructions
Handout: Lecture 18
Reading: Zellou 2010
Tense, Aspect, and Agreement in Amharic
Handout: Lecture 17
Reading: Yimam 2006
Week 7 : October 16 – October 20
No Class Friday
Tigrinya Copulas
Handout: Lecture 16
Reading: Kifle 2011 ch.2.4.3
Amharic Prepositions (I)
Handout: Lecture 15
Reading: Baker & Kramer 2014
Week 6 : October 9 – October 13
Vowel Coalescence in Tigrinya
Handout: Lecture 14
Reading: Buckley 1994
Object Marking in Tigrinya Ditransitives
Handout: Lecture 13
Reading: Overfelt 2022
Tigrinya Relative Clauses
Handout: Lecture 12
Reading: Overfelt 2009 sec.3
Week 5 : October 2 – October 6
Tigrinya Construct State Nominals
Handout: Lecture 11
Reading: Gebregziabher 2013
Tigrinya Possessive Asymmetries
Handout: Lecture 10
Reading: Gebregziabher 2012
The Syntax of Modality in Tigrinya
Handout: Lecture 09
Week 4 : September 25 – September 29
Ethiosemitic Clausal Syntax
Handout: Lecture 08
Ethiosemitic Verbal Syntax
Handout: Lecture 07
Ethiosemitic Nominal Syntax
Handout: Lecture 06
Week 3 : September 18 – September 2
No Class
Ethiosemitic Derivational and Root Morphology
Handout: Lecture 05
Week 2 : September 11 – September 15
Ethiosemitic Inflectional Morphology
Handout: Lecture 04
Ethiosemitic Phonetics & Phonology
Handout: Lecture 03 (corrected)
Ethiosemitic Languages
Handout: Lecture 02
Week 1 : August 30 – September 3
Semitic Languages
Handout: Lecture 01
Introduction
Readings
Amberber 2000
Ayalew 2011
Baker & Kramer 2014
Baker & Kramer 2018
Bulakh 2019
Edzard 2019
Gebregziabher 2012
Gebregziabher 2013
Huehnergard & Rubin 2011
Kifle 2011
Kramer 2014
Overfelt 2009
Overfelt 2022
Rubin 2008
Spadine 2020
Weninger 2011
References
Hetzron 2005
Weninger (ed.) 2011
Huehnergard & Pat-El (eds.) 2019
Jason Overfelt 